Senior Category Manager

Confidential

London

We currently have vacancies for Senior Category Managers – Construction and Property Services and IT Services. which has arisen at an exciting time when our client is embarking on a series of significant Capital and IT projects together with maintaining its well-established and busy annual capital programme. Your role in this will be of critical importance, in this role your experience in managing a team will be essential and you will be responsible for a category team of 5, as well as an external project resource and you will work alongside two peers, reporting to the Assistant Director of Category Management and Sourcing. If successful your responsibility will include:

To manage Category Managers, including planning and prioritising individual and team workloads, and establishing and monitoring performance standards.

To carry out staff appraisals and ensure training requirements of team members are identified and met, appoint staff, in conjunction with the Assistant Director.

To provide an expert view on complex categories of spend with procurement plans for projects, some of which will be over 12 months in length.

To establish and maintain key relationships with internal and external users, suppliers and system providers.

This role would suit someone looking for a long term position and the salary is £60k-£62k dependent on experience.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please submit an up to date copy of your CV, along with a Supporting Statement that addresses the criteria set out in the person specification, using examples to demonstrate how you meet the essential requirements. Please provide your home, work, mobile and email contact details and let us know of any dates when you are not available or where you may have difficulty with the indicative timetable. You should also provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. If you do not wish us to approach your referees without your prior permission, please state this clearly.

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